Three on One

This week I've been mostly on my own with the boys, so I am perfecting my zone feeding technique. The hardest part is fitting in nursing at the same time I'm propping two other boys and trying to get everyone burped. If they will cooperate and let me start their feedings 10-15 minutes apart, that helps a lot. But sometimes, everyone is hungry all at once!

Yesterday I tandem nursed two of the babies for the first time. It went pretty well. It certainly went better than I ever hoped, considering the fact that I had to work pretty hard to teach each of them to nurse in the first place. Even now, they don't always cooperate with me, but if one won't cooperate, there's always another baby to try!

Right now the babies get breast milk for about half of their feedings. Some of the time they nurse, and the rest of the time they get a bottle of either breast milk or formula. Beside the fact that breast milk is the best food in the world for the babies, if you've purchased formula lately, you know it's well worth the time and effort to nurse and pump for the savings alone! We go through a $25 can of formula in about 4 days, and that's with me providing half the feedings in breast milk. We're investing the savings in their college fund. HA! Maybe once we're done buying diapers.

Excuse Me?

Yesterday I went back to the paint store for another gallon of paint for the cribs, changing tables and dresser for the babies' room. This is the same paint store where I had the odd conversation with the two sales guys previously. I was hoping they wouldn't remember me.

They did.

And another odd conversation ensued.

Salesman 1: Now, can you breastfeed three babies?

Me: Well, I think I'm better equipped to do it than you.

Salesman 2: Are they natural? (The babies, not my breastfeeding equipment.)

Me: No, they are made of space-age polymer.

Seriously, did two total strangers, and men at that, just ask me these questions? I told Jeff I'm not going back there until I'm no longer pregnant.